These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids

Three technologists in India used a homemade Faraday cage and a microwave oven to get around Apple’s location blocks.

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Why is a feature like that geofenced in the first place?
- Apparently due to Indian regulations. I guess it cannot legally call itself a "hearing aid" without going through some kind of certification process.
  
  Yeah the article mentioned that at some point. It still seems a bit petty to geofence it, instead of just calling it something else
Fun fact I learned waaay too late in my nursing career: if a patient has lost or damaged their amplifying hearing aid, you can put a stethoscope in their ears and talk into the bell.

None of you will ever use this but I share it with everyone now because it's really neat.
- My brother told me this. He said the disposable stethoscopes during COVID height were great for this.
  
  And I actually might as I intend to go EMS/EMS adjacent.
You can still use the hearing test feature by browsing this link on your Apple device:

x-apple-health://HearingAppPlugin.healthplugin/HearingTest

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